As though he were collecting evidence, Mr. Malsom picked up a water glass, a matchbook, lunch wrappers and bet receipts.
No more scrambling to pack lunches, open wrappers or orchestrate bathing.
While Mr. Lapine always writes his notes on a special pad, Ms. Shear is prone to bringing in ideas scribbled on lunch bags, candy wrappers, even her palms.
At a recent lunch, he had difficulty pulling the wrapper off a straw.
And although he has since served his jail time, moved to another town and changed his name, she has finally caught up with him, in this nondescript staff room practically knee-deep in the remains of fast-food lunches and crumpled snack wrappers.
"I felt a sense of dread anytime I saw a boy open a package of them at lunch," Mr. Samuelsson writes, "because I knew that the wrapper would soon be coming my way".
Instead, students might include something with light sentimental but little or no monetary value, like a receipt or wrapper for something they liked to eat for lunch every day that year.
Every day with their lunch, the children got a cookie that came in a cellophane wrapper.
White narcissus nodded over Ms. Russell's lunch, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich sitting on its white paper wrapper.
"I just had a penguin with my lunch (the chocolate bar, not the animal)" shares David Smith "and was apalled to find on the wrapper not a joke, but a fact.
